Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Michelle Keating has joined the Collins Booksellers head office in the role of national franchise manager. Keating has worked for a number of Collins stores in Melbourne over the past 23...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Asialink’s travelling writers festival the Bookwallah will tour Australia’s East Coast over coming months, kicking off with an exhibition at the State Library of Victoria in partnership with the Melbourne...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
‘It’s really no different from suggesting that because they’re so keen to see a game, fans should have the right to avoid ticket barriers at sports grounds or railway stations’—APA...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Black Inc. has announced a number of staff changes following a restructure of the publisher’s publicity and marketing team. Publicity and marketing manager Elisabeth Young has been promoted to the role...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Six authors have received funding in the latest round of the Creative Industries Career Fund, administered by the Copyright Agency (CAL). Children’s author and Random House associate publisher of children’s and...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Jane Curry Publishing (JCP) has appointed Jasmine Standfield to the newly created position of publishing manager. Standfield will manage JCP’s production, taking over from Karen Young, who previously worked with JCP...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Four Collins Booksellers franchises in Victoria have closed after the stores’ parent company was placed into voluntary administration. The four stores are located in Bendigo and Kangaroo Flat in regional...

Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Sales Fiction—Clan Destine Press has sold rights to Out of the Black Land and the ‘Delphic Women’ trilogy Medea, Cassandra and Electra (all Kerry Greenwood) to Poisoned Pen Press in...

Tuesday, 6 August 2013
The winners of this year’s Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards have been announced.  The winners in each category are: LIANZA Junior Fiction Award—Esther Glen Medal Red...

Tuesday, 6 August 2013
New Zealand publisher Pear Jam Books has closed and its founder, children’s author Jill Marshall, has left the country ‘with a trail of unpaid debts’, reports the New Zealand Herald....

Monday, 5 August 2013
The winners for the Federal Government’s inaugural Australian Arts in Asia Awards have been announced, with book-related winners in two of the categories. James Aitchison won the Literature category for his...

Monday, 5 August 2013
Inferno (Dan Brown, Bantam) has been knocked off the top spot in the bestsellers chart by The Cuckoo’s Calling (Robert Galbraith, Hachette). The Cuckoo’s Calling is also in first place in the fastest movers chart, a spot...

Wednesday, 31 July 2013
The finalists for the Federal Government’s inaugural Australian Arts in Asia Awards have been announced. The finalists in the literature category and the countries they have been nominated for are:...

Wednesday, 31 July 2013
‘Borders and Angus & Robertson’s sales were 40% Australian published books. Now our biggest bookshop, Amazon, has an infinitesimally small number of Australian books being sold. We have entered a...

Tuesday, 30 July 2013
The titles shortlisted for this year's Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The titles shortlisted in each category are: Primary Education Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities...

Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Online bookseller Boomerang Books has again announced that it will close its ebookstore Booku, just over a month after announcing that the store would continue to trade. As previously reported...

Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Books+Publishing is conducting research into wages in the book industry for an article in Books+Publishing magazine. If you work in the book industry, we would love to get your input...

Monday, 29 July 2013
The Cuckoo’s Calling (Hachette) by Robert Galbraith, which was revealed to be an alias of J K Rowling, is at the top of the fastest movers chart this week. Following...

Monday, 29 July 2013
Sydney bookstore Pages & Pages Booksellers will supply all print books for online bookseller Boomerang Books as part of a new partnership between the two businesses. Pages & Pages has...